· Public charity
Barnwell County United Way
The organization solicits and collects contributions from businesses and individuals and manages the allocation and distribution of those contributions to service organizations engaged in assisting individuals and families in need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $300,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $343,471 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,671 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k12 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHEAST HOUSING & COMM DEV | $40,250 |
| BARNWELL COUNTY SCHOOL DIST | $30,000 |
| FOODSHARE BAMBERG | $24,600 |
| ALLENDALE COUNTY SCHOOL DIST | $20,000 |
| BAMBERG COUNTY SCHOOL DIST | $20,000 |
| BARNWELL COUNTY HELP LINE | $15,750 |
| DIG DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM | $15,400 |
| SHOP HER CLOSET | $12,000 |
| ALLENDALE COUNTY ALIVE | $12,000 |
| NED BRANCH THRIFTY SHOPPER | $10,300 |
| EMPOWER DEVELOPMENT CTR | $10,000 |
| DENMARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| THE SMART BOX | $8,250 |
| VOORHEES UNIVERSITY CEED | $8,000 |
| BARNWELL CO HEALING PARTNERS | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BCBARNWELL COUNTY HELP LINE4× · 2017–2022 · $42k · revenue -33% · 73% of their budget
- BCBARNWELL COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE4× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +132%
- GUGENERATIONS UNLIMITED3× · 2017–2020 · $23k
Funded once
- BCBARNWELL COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To study the characteristics and market trends in relation to economic housing issues within the Waccamaw housing services to special needs population.
Provide 16 units of affordable housing to low to moderate income individuals.
Collleton Fuller Center work in partenrship with God and People everywhere from all walks of life to develope decent communities. We will establish collaborate efforts with any and all agencies and individuals who can play a role in…
Continue to provide programs that assist low income families with purchasing & rehabilitation of affordable housing.
Assist low income citizens of sumter county with affordable housing. also, youth building training.
We are independent, community based, nonprofit with a Mission to enhance communities by providing quality, safe, decent and affordable housing, and other forms of economic opportunities that benefit low to moderate income individuals…
Develop, provide, and promote safe, affordable, and decent housing and design, research, and/or promote revitalization activities and facilitate the coordination of various service and support activities for the greater Greenville…
To provide quality affordable housing
Building homes working families can afford. We are dedicated to: providing new, affordable homes to residents in the South Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee; preparing future and current homeowners to both acquire and maintain a safe and…
None
To provide affordable housing to the residents of north baton rouge and participate in outreach programs in baton rouge.
To promote the common interest of those involved in the development & management of rural multi-family housing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Carolina Regional - Cdc and the most unlike its peers is Smart Box. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BARNWELL COUNTY HELP LINE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds BARNWELL COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE ↗
- Who funds DREAMS IMAGINATION & GIFT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM DIG ↗
- Who funds ALLENDALE COUNTY ALIVE ↗
- Who funds SMART BOX ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY UPLIFTING ALLIANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CAROLINA REGIONAL - CDC ↗
- Who funds Community Development And Improvement Corporation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development · Save The Children Federation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Barnwell County United Way funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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